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The crews were working on the ride today until about 1:30. They must have stopped working early because of the holiday weekend. When I rode Drop Tower, they were installing a support element that will be between the transfer track area and immediately outside of the station. There was also a crew busting up the old King Cobra footing. You could see and hear the jackhammer when riding Adventure Express today. It doesn`t look like much new track has arrived recently either. I`d imagine that we will see Clifford doing some heavy lifting next week. It seems like the park still has a lot of work to do to set up Haunt. The only visible Haunt construction is limited. Cemetery Drive in the Tower Gardens has received a nice new wood facade. And there were also props behind Stunt Crew Grill, and visible outside of the Crypt building. I also saw the usual Haunt props over by the Zephyr from The Racer. We are only about three weeks away from opening of Halloween Haunt, which opens on September 20th.

No Bart at Coney either...

The ride that has been idled all season has been the Trabant ride. Unfortunately, as much as I would love to see a set of flying scooters installed at Coney, we are not going to be getting that kind of ride. We are going to be getting a more nauseating and intense creation.

Sad to see Rolling Thunder leaving at Six Flags Great Adventure. I really enjoyed that ride on my visit there. But Zumanjaro looks pretty intense! A drop ride from 415 feet at 90 miles an hour! It is also neat how the ride is situated right in between Kingda Ka and on the same side of the launch track. When I had heard rumors about this ride, I thought that the drop ride would be on the side facing away from the launch track.

Those Six Flags commercials were great and so catchy! Gotta love some "We like to party."

Thats what I was thinking to. What was the last ProSlide slide that Cedar Fair installed? Was it the racing slide up at Cedar Point last year?

I wonder if that price will be universal across all the parks. Cedar Point, with its separately gated water park, could benefit from charging a bit more for their Platinum Pass for those locals that want to enjoy both Cedar Point and their Soak City water park. In my opinion, that price point is getting a bit high. I mean, it means you essentially are paying about $100 more for a platinum pass, which means you need to visit at least three times, in order to make it worth it to get a Platinum Pass. I still wish that they would offer some across the board discounts on food for Platinum Pass holders like 10% off of food purchases in the parks.

Is this a ProSlide or White Water West installation? It looks like a fun slide with lots of varying experiences. As others have said, Kings Island`s Soak City could use something like this. If nothing else to help with capacity during the summer months. I didn`t make it out to Soak City this year, but my one visit last year, there were long lines every where. I still hope that KI would get a ProSlide water coaster similar to Mammoth or Wildebeast at Holiday World. Those were two fun and awesome rides. Well worth the hour wait that I waited for each of them when i went to Holiday World earlier this year.

It looks like they took the fence down next to the Ice Scream Zone. At least temporarily anyway. They assembled the big red crane today. I think they actually started yesterday.

Titl A Whirl isn`t that great at capacity. It only has seven cars. Which if you figure 3 people per car is only 21 per cycle. Round Up can handle 42 per cycle. And Flying Bobs can handle at least 36 per cycle. Even the carousel can handle quite a few per cycle as there are 30 horses. Scream Machine on the other hand only can handle 10 people per cycle, but its ride time is really short.

It will certainly be interesting. Although it will be a low capacity attraction. But a low capacity attraction is better than a ride sitting closed all season.

I think that it was installed on the transfer track area of the ride.

That is NOT the station. Trust me, I know the station area very well. That is the transfer track area, which is adjacent to the station.

Now if only Kings Island could get a Flying Eagles ride again. Preferrably, we would get ours back from Carowinds and Carowinds would get a new set.

And many will forget that Paramount Park`s corporate office was down in Charlotte prior to the Cedar Fair acquisition. And I bet that Charlotte has a lot better airport in terms of destinations served than Sandusky.

Much better!

And you successfully posted entirely within the quote. I quickly glanced at your post, and didn`t see the normal post text! I had to go back to the original post to see what you had actually written!

Coney Island is once again hosting an international fireworks competition. The second annual competition will put France, Italy and Portugal against each other. The companies that are competing are: Brezac Artifices, France; Panzera, Italy; and Grupo Luso Pirotecnia, Portugal. The event will be held on Saturday, September 21st. The gates open at 3pm (two hours earlier than last year), and fireworks begin at 8:30pm. Admission is $30 per carload, and includes admission to the park, and access to Coney`s classic rides. (Separate admission rates apply to limos, buses, RVs, and walk in admission is $5 a person. No re-entry. And after the three competing countries launch their pyrotechnic artistry in the sky over Lake Como, Rozzi`s Famous Fireworks caps off the night with a grand finale. Last year it was an extremely fun event. I have never witnessed so many fireworks, with each show going for about fifteen to twenty minutes. Definitely a fun event and well worth the trip. Not to mention the price is pretty reasonable considering you gain access to the rides and a night of fun fireworks. For more information on Fire Up the Night, go here: http://coneyislandpark.com/fire_up_the_night.php On a slightly unrelated subject, please note that Coney Island is closed to the public this Saturday, August 24th for a private event. The park will be open to the public again on Sunday.

Agreed. I wonder if we will ever see another wooden coaster built at Cedar Point. There have been a lot of new and innovative concepts to appear on wooden coasters in the last several seasons. Believe it or not, Mean Streak is over 20 years old! It opened in 1991 and was designed by the then leading wood coaster designers of Summers and Dinn.

Flight Deck, by far. Dragging Iron. I mean Iron Dragon, is a tad on the boring side.

It is incredibly fun! If ever there was a dream job, this is pretty close to it for me. I still can`t believe that I get paid to work on awesome projects like this. I actually left my position at K4 Architecture back in May to take this position at TRA, knowing that I might get to work on amusement park projects. It was a risky decision, but it so far, has turned out brilliantly. (Not to mention that I am still doing some contract work on the side for K4 and maintaining their website). So I am really looking forward to the opening of Banshee to see my project built too! Its always an awesome feeling to see a project that you had a hand in get built in three dimensions.

Except that dual launch coaster launched you forward both times. This one apparently will launch the trains both forward and backwards, which Backlot Stunt Coaster does not do. It will be interesting to see what plans they have in store for the park past 2015.

This ride is definitely going to change the look of the Action Zone. It is a lot closer to the midway than what Son of Beast was. And it will tower over the midway by Slingshot too. I can`t wait for next April!

Thanks for the pictures! I went to Six Flags Great Adventure back in 2011 with some friends. We had originally intended only to go to Hersheypark and Dorney, but we ended up doing those two parks in one day, and did Great Adventure the next day. (Talk about lots of driving). But it was well worth it. We had a lot of fun at SFGAdv. I can`t wait to go back there and take my fiance with me! I really love El Toro. Between Kingda Ka and Top Thrill Dragster, I pick Top Thrill. Kingda Ka has a lot more vibration in the trains.

One firm that is working on the ride that was not mentioned is Tony Ravagnani Architects. TRA is based in Cincinnati, OH and also did work on Cedar Point`s new entrance and Gatekeeper. http://www.tonyravarch.com/ TRA worked on the station for Banshee. This is of particular interest to me, since I currently work at Tony Ravagnani Architects. And yes, I did work on the project.